Clanfield 3 Kingslcere 5: AT A wet and windy Peel Park Clanfield and Kingsclere played out an eight-goal thriller in difficult conditions, with the visitors causing an upset to progress to the next round of the League Cup.

Neither side could get their foot on the ball and dictate the play early on, until Clanfield finally got the ball in behind for James Barker to run on to and finish nicely into the bottom corner. That was the only good bit of play from Clanfield in the first half, and they slowly let Kingsclere get back in the game and the visitors led 2-1 at the break.

Clanfield got themselves back on level terms in the second half when Luke Grice crossed to Owen Milne, who out-jumped the defender to score in the top left-hand corner of the net.

The visitors regained the lead with a shot from 20 yards out, but Clanfield equalised through Owen Milne who picked the ball up on the edge of the box and curled a right-foot shot straight into the bottom corner.

Kingsclere soon regained the lead, and then scored a penalty to seal a 5-3 win.

Clanfield boss Lee Blakely said: “I’m very disappointed with the performance and very concerned by the lack of quality throughout the team.

“The conditions were tough but it was the same for both teams and we gave them four of the five goals that they scored and you’re never going to win games doing that.

“We changed formation but that was not the problem, it was how poor we were with the ball. Not being disrespectful to Kingsclere, and they deserved to go through, but we should be winning games like this and it just simply was not good enough. I have confidence we can get out of this blip but we need to dig deep and make sure individually and as a team we give everything.”